Pedro Labayen Herrera

Since assuming office in January, Honduran President Nasry Asfura has tightened relations with Trump and Netanyahu, persecuted opponents, ushered in austerity measures, and rejoined ISDS @Pedro_Labayen discusses these updates + more on this week's "From D.C. Across the Americas"

The idea of a US president visiting Haiti is a joke to the US embassy in Haiti.

So, about that joint US-Ecuador bombing of an alleged drug trafficking organization training camp ... Turns out the Ecuadorian military showed up days before, burned a dairy farm, tortured farmers, then later bombed it and released a propaganda video with the US military's help. Ladies and gentlemen, the War on Drugs.

On the 50th anniversary of the brutal #coup in #Argentina, please also remember and honor the #Bolivians disappeared and murdered there as part of Plan Condor. Impunity reigns for the perpetrators as their heirs regain power. #Memory#Truth#Justice. #shieldoftheamericas @MaraNav14054904

Finalmente, los expertos expresan su preocupación por la ausencia de mecanismos de rendición de cuentas y fiscalización de las fuerzas armadas, así como por las interminables prorrogas del estado de excepción.

Noboa carece de base legal para declarar un "conflicto armado interno" e invocar el DIH. Según los expertos, la amenaza planteada por los grupos criminales en EC no cumple los criterios de un CANI. Por ello, el Estado no puede utilizar la fuerza letal contra estos "combatientes".

8 Relatores Especiales de derechos humanos han enviado una dura carta al gobierno ecuatoriano, expresando preocupaciones sobre el código penal, la ley de inteligencia, la declaración del "conflicto armado interno" del presidente Noboa y el interminable estado de excepción. Un 🧵:

Finally, the experts express concern over the lack of accountability and oversight of the armed forces and the seemingly endless declarations of states of emergency.

Noboa can’t declare an “internal armed conflict” and invoke IHL. NIACs must meet specific criteria, which the threats posed by criminal groups in Ecuador do not, the experts say. Ecuadorian authorities have no basis to apply IHL rules, including use of force against “combatants”

8 UN Special Rapporteurs have sent a scathing letter to the Ecuadorian government, raising human rights concerns about the country’s criminal code, intelligence law, President Noboa’s declaration of an “internal armed conflict,” and the endless state of emergency. A🧵: